School Crisis Survival Guide: Management Techniques and Materials for Counselors and Administrators (J-B Ed: Survival Guides) [Paperback]

Suni Petersen (Author), Ron L. Straub (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0876288069 | ISBN-13: 978-0876288061 | Publication Date: October 15, 1991 | Edition: 1

Here are hundreds of step-by-step guidelines, strategies, and working plans for helping students in grades K-12 overcome any kind of crisis or tragedy, including personal losses, tragic accidents, a terminally ill classmate, suicide, violence, and natural disasters. Plus, this complete and comprehensive resource includes reproducible activity sheets for counselors and teachers to use at different stages of a child's recovery -- activities that will help put children in touch with their feelings, identify problems, and easy their healing.

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Here are hundreds of step-by-step guidelines, strategies, and working plans for helping students in grades K-12 overcome any kind of crisis or tragedy, including personal losses, tragic accidents, a terminally ill classmate, suicide, violence, and natural disasters.

Plus, this complete and comprehensive resource includes reproducible activity sheets for counselors and teachers to use at different stages of a child's recovery — activities that will help put children in touch with their feelings, identify problems, and easy their healing. Here is a small sample of what this Guide covers:

• Planning for Crisis: Section 1 explains why every school needs a crisis plan and shows you how to form and effective crisis team
• The Crisis Team in Motion: Section 2 gives you step-by-step guidelines for developing and administering a specific crisis plan to fit your school's needs — from setting up a student counseling program to dealing with the media and preparing memorial day services.
• Crisis Counseling: Section 3 provides in-depth information on the impact of crisis and death on faculty and students of all ages, including what you need to know about Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and its prevention.
• Activities for the Resolution of Trauma and Grief: Section 4 provides a wide variety of individual and group activities for all age groups to help overcome different stages of traumatic reaction. Activates include Releasing Anger in Constructive Ways ... Helping Students Deal with Fear ... and Helping Students through Denial.
• Special Concerns for Specific Crises: The last section presents specific way of handling such crises as suicide, natural disaster, violence, and death, and includes steps for prevention of theses crises and ways of dealing with the associated trauma and grief.

About the Author

Suni Petersen is a licensed medical health counselor who has specialized in family therapy for over 13 years. Ms. Petersen has designed crisis plans for a number of school districts and has developed expertise in the areas of crises and death through her work with seriously and terminally ill clients.

Ronald L. Straub, a counselor, has a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy and a Master's in Divinity. Mr. Straub has taught high school, provided support to dying hospital patients, and worked as an alcohol counselor.

Product Details

• Paperback: 216 pages
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 1 edition (October 15, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0876288069
• ISBN-13: 978-0876288061
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,291,534 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive, well organized, user friendly, affordable!, February 7, 1999

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This review is from: School Crisis Survival Guide: Management Techniques and Materials for Counselors and Administrators (J-B Ed: Survival Guides) (Paperback)

As a school crisis coordinator, I used this book a number of years ago to write a crisis response plan for a school. As a presentor at conferences, both at state and national level, I often recommend this book to individuals who have the responsibility to write a crisis response plan or to provide intervention during times of crisis. I was pleased when it was again made available after being out of print. Thank you.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensice, well organized, through, user friendly,, February 7, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: School Crisis Survival Guide: Management Techniques and Materials for Counselors and Administrators (J-B Ed: Survival Guides) (Paperback)

As a school crisis coordinator, I used this book a number of years ago to write a crisis response plan for a school. As a presentor at conferences, both at state and national level, I recommend this book to individuals who have the responsibility to provide intervention during times of crisis. I was pleased when it was again made available after being out of print. Thank you.

5.0 out of 5 stars In-depth information on the impact of crisis and death on faculty and students of all ages, August 4, 2006

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This review is from: School Crisis Survival Guide: Management Techniques and Materials for Counselors and Administrators (J-B Ed: Survival Guides) (Paperback)

School Crisis Survival Guide by mental health counselor Suni Petersen and Ronald L. Straub provides hundreds of guidelines, strategies, and working plans for counselors and teachers to help students in grades K-12 to deal with any manner of crisis or tragedy from personal loss, tragic accidents, and terminally ill classmates, to incidents of suicide, violence, and natural disasters. School Crisis Survival Guide address why every school needs a crisis plan and how to form a crisis team; provides step-by-step instructions for developing and administering a crisis plan custom designed to fit a schools particular need, ranging from setting up a student counseling program to dealing with media, to preparing memorial services; offers in-depth information on the impact of crisis and death on faculty and students of all ages, and the necessity of dealing with "Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder"; lists a wide variety of individual and group activities for all age groups with respect to the different stages of traumatic reaction; and even presents specific ways for handling such common yet unpredictable events as suicide, and the associated trauma and grief that violence, death, and natural disaster will leave in their wake. No public or private grade school, junior high, or high school counseling department can afford to be without their own reference copy of School Crisis Survival Guide.